The ACLU and several other organizations have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to declare geofence warrants unconstitutional, arguing that the increasingly used investigative tool violates the Fourth ...

Geofence warrants resemble the reviled “general warrants” of the colonial era, which motivated the Founders to pass the Fourth Amendment in the first place. They defy the Fourth Amendment’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to weigh arguments for and against using geofence warrants while investigating criminal cases.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether dragnet warrants that law enforcement uses to scoop up smartphone users’ location ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — A detective investigating an armed bank robbery in Midlothian turned to Google when other leads in the case didn’t work out, obtaining a search warrant for the location history ...

Alfred Ng was a senior reporter for CNET News. He was raised in Brooklyn and previously worked on the New York Daily News's social media and breaking news teams. Geofence warrants are facing legal ...

Police around the country have drastically increased their use of geofence warrants, a widely criticized investigative technique that collects data from any user's device that was in a specified area ...

Civil liberties advocates have long argued that “geofence” search warrants are unconstitutional for their ability to ensnare entirely innocent people who were nearby at the time a crime was committed.

Jane Bambauer, a leading information law scholar (both on the First Amendment and the Fourth Amendment side), wrote up these thoughts on the recent geofencing case, on which Orin had also written; I'm ...

Tesla just revealed its new robotaxi geofence, and its shape is raising eyebrows. Rolled out in the morning of July 14, some early users of Tesla's robotaxi app immediately noticed that the shape of ...

Richard Nieva was a senior reporter for CNET News, focusing on Google and Yahoo. He previously worked for PandoDaily and Fortune Magazine, and his writing has appeared in The New York Times, on ...